The sensibility, ethereality, and cunningness of “The Rake’s Progress” are even more pronounced in the revival of Olivier Py ...

The Rake’s Progress has something few operas today can boast — a superlative libretto. Auden is clever and dark and funny and to the point. Perhaps the perennial relevance of the text inspired ...

Stravinsky's masterwork The Rake's Progress, created for La Fenice in Venice in 1951, is based on a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, inspired by a series of 18th century prints by ...

The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight ...